Conflicts
Wars that begin by being instigated by other powers that do not fight are called
Proxy Wars
What country was trying to contain communism?
What is the U.S. ?
Race to increase military weapons, military power, armed forces, increase nuclear weapons.
The Cold War was about __________________ between ___________ and _____________
The Cold War was about tension between the U.S and USSR (Soviet Union)
This organization failed to prevent WW2 because of the policy of appeasement.
League of Nations
October 16-28, 1962 were arguably the most dangerous thirteen days of the Cold War. This crisis was due to the Soviet Union placing weapons in Cuba that pointed towards the U.S.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What was the communist country that U.S. was most afraid of?
What is the USSR?
What is the name of the place where U.S soldiers tried to overthrow Fidel Castro, but Fidel Castro found out and killed them all.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
The Berlin Wall collapsed in what year
1989
It is the organization that constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. its an alliance between the U.S and Western European countries.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
What parallel is Korean divided? Is it still like that today
38th parallel and NO
This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947. It saved Greece and Turkey from Communism
What is the Truman Doctrine?
What is the vocabulary word that means, if countries use their nuclear weapons we will all die for sure.
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
What is the political reform and economic reform Gorbachev implemented?
Glasnost
Perestroika
The international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace. Formed at the end of WW2.
What is the United Nations (UN)?
Vietnam was split on what parallel and is it still the same today?
17th parallel and NO
The Marshall Plan sent money and military power to Western European countries, this an example of what U.S policy?
What is Containment?
The two places where the first 2 atomic bombs were dropped
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What imaginary line divided Eastern and Western Europe?
Iron Curtain
This alliance was formed in response to NATO and was a pact between Eastern European countries.
What is Warsaw Pact
What years did the Cold War start and end.
What is 1945, 1990-91
In Afghanistan was communism contained or did it spread?
Contained; Soviet Union lost the war
I am what the U.S and Russia were building in competition of each other.
What are nuclear weapons?
Berlin Airlift
This group of people was the non-communist group in Afghanistan that the U.S provided money and military assistance.
Mujahideen